Athletics Quotes

Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

I can't compare family to athletics.

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

We do not use managers, we are the representatives of our athletes, and that is why I am deeply involved in athletics, I follow our athletes careers from start to finish, 100% all the way.

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception.

Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

We want to make sure our athletes have a future once their athletics careers are over.

You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

Athletics is in my blood.

I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.

This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain.

In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.

If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics.

Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends.

We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world.

I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.

If you get a great wife who understands the demands of someone in athletics, I think that's important.

I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.